Stat 365: Statistical Communication
Today we will…
cave paintings1
Credited with the invention of many common data visualizations: the pie chart, the bar chart, the line and area chart.
(no, not the one you’re thinking about)
Used mapping to solve a cholera epidemic in London
In addition to her work as a nurse, Nightingale was a statistician and invented the “coxcomb,” a variation on the pie chart
Super-famous statistician
and eugenicist
(yes, the same Du Bois you’re thinking of)
Data Portraits of the Paris Exhibition
Statistician who developed the box plot and bar chart!
Statistician who rocked the boat
Proposed a method called Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), which involves making many simple graphs and summary statistics to understand data.
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.”
Got credit for the boxplot, but didn’t create it
Cartographer and theorist
plotlyGGally from Carson Sievert on Vimeo.
xlsp-stat
Statistician and software designer
Worked on SYSTAT, SPSS, Tableau, now H2O.ai
Famous R programmer
Implemented the grammar of graphics in R, ggplot2
Works at RStudio
Created d3.js, a javascript implementation of the grammar of graphics
Dimensions (think factors), Measures (think quantitative), and Marks (think aesthetics) are combined to create different charts to visualize data.
Collect Data
Data and Methods + Table
One-number Story
Practice in Tableau